Walking around Can Tho

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© John Holstein 2019

This shot of downtown's Chua Khmer Muniransay gives an accurate view of the scale and feel of the city of 1.5 million. When walking the streets you will hardly ever come upon a building over 6 stories, and most are under 4 stories..

Central market, downtown on the River Can Tho. Quite messy, but very little litter, like throughout the clean city.

On the outskirts of downtown. Not many cars, mostly motorbikes and bicycles (though, unfortunately, no bicycles available to rent).

There are two multi-lane streets downtown. This is a shot of one of them. (Sorry I didn't get a better photo.)

A downtown side street.

This is a screen capture of a local-color video taken with an inconspicuous phone held at my side. Hoang Van Thu-Street. Check it out on Youtube.

Hem18 Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Lane, just outside of downtown. Small 2- and 3-story homes and apartments here, apparently middle or lower middle class..

Very pleasant kindergarten

Beautiful campus of a primary school, colonial era architecture.

Crowding onto another primary school campus to pick up their children. Vietnamese (and Indonesians, too, for that matter) have excellent crowding manners.

Hawon Spa is Korean, but there are very few Koreans in Can Tho.

In our local market.

Fetching dereliction

Roadside repair shop

Husband and wife team. They were there every time I passed that spot.

You tell the waiter each item that you want. My waiter was a graduate of Can Tho National University, Engineering Department.

The excellent Mekong Land Guesthouse, where I was very happy to come back to every day after exploring the city. Thao and the other two young ladies were always there to help, with a smile--except for the morning of Tet, when I found myself locked in and no one to let me out.

My comfy and spacious room, on the third floor.

The hotel and guesthouse area (about 2 miles from the heart of town) borders on what appears to be a spacious gated residential compoud. The owner of the compound apparently prefers environment over big profit. The tables and chairs down there are where I had breakfast every day.

Pooch, our handsome guesthouse mascot. Can you believe he's less than a year old? The apparently love-starved ogre immensely enjoyed the petting I gave him every time we met. Kindred spirits.

The "buddha of good fortune," at the entrance to this sleazy nightclub, showing the true nature of this equivalent of the West's "gospel of prosperity."

A coffee shop for a young clientele. Two plastic chairs and a plastic table, with boombox music that could drown out the roard of a Saturn 3.

A program of traditional songs sung by amateurs. The guy in the white shirt provides guitar accompaniment. Check out her performance at my post on Youtube.

Good night! Thanks for looking.

Walking around Can Tho

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This shot of downtown's Chua Khmer Muniransay gives an accurate view of the scale and feel of the city of 1.5 million. When walking the streets you will hardly ever come upon a building over 6 stories, and most are under 4 stories..






Central market, downtown on the River Can Tho. Quite messy, but very little litter, like throughout the clean city.






On the outskirts of downtown. Not many cars, mostly motorbikes and bicycles (though, unfortunately, no bicycles available to rent).






There are two multi-lane streets downtown. This is a shot of one of them. (Sorry I didn't get a better photo.)






A downtown side street.






























This is a screen capture of a local-color video taken with an inconspicuous phone held at my side. Hoang Van Thu-Street. Check it out on Youtube.






Hem18 Xo Viet Nghe Tinh Lane, just outside of downtown. Small 2- and 3-story homes and apartments here, apparently middle or lower middle class..






Very pleasant kindergarten






Beautiful campus of a primary school, colonial era architecture.






Crowding onto another primary school campus to pick up their children. Vietnamese (and Indonesians, too, for that matter) have excellent crowding manners.






Hawon Spa is Korean, but there are very few Koreans in Can Tho.






In our local market.











Fetching dereliction











Roadside repair shop






Husband and wife team. They were there every time I passed that spot.






You tell the waiter each item that you want. My waiter was a graduate of Can Tho National University, Engineering Department.






I have never seen a "sleeper cafe" (my phrasing) anywhere else in Vietnam except one 2-kilomter stretch on the road from Can Tho to Saigon. The whole place is hung with hammocks.






The excellent Mekong Land Guesthouse, where I was very happy to come back to every day after exploring the city. Thao and the other two young ladies were always there to help, with a smile--except for the morning of Tet, when I found myself locked in and no one to let me out.






My comfy and spacious room, on the third floor.






The hotel and guesthouse area (about 2 miles from the heart of town) borders on what appears to be a spacious gated residential compoud. The owner of the compound apparently prefers environment over big profit. The tables and chairs down there are where I had breakfast every day.






Pooch, our handsome guesthouse mascot. Can you believe he's less than a year old? The apparently love-starved ogre immensely enjoyed the petting I gave him every time we met. Kindred spirits.






The crass, venal karaoke cum massage parlor (=gangsters and sex) kitsch-architectured neighborhood that hosted my guesthouse. Fortunately, Mekong Land is on the very edge of it. You can see the gated residential compound at the end of the road.






The "buddha of good fortune," at the entrance to this sleazy nightclub, showing the true nature of this equivalent of the West's "gospel of prosperity."






"No dumping."






A coffee shop for a young clientele. Two plastic chairs and a plastic table, with boombox music that could drown out the roard of a Saturn 3.






A program of traditional songs sung by amateurs. The guy in the white shirt provides guitar accompaniment. Check out her performance at my post on Youtube.

Good night! Thanks for looking.

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